I have included this picture as it reminds me of how things have changed and one always has to be prepared for unexpected.

Dicky Martin and I had spent three months in the Philippines acting as Philippino airline Captains demonstrating to Philippine Airlines how the Hawker Siddelely  748 was able to operate from their shortest unprepared airfields. I was accompanied by my family and we all set forth on our ferry home accompanied by Elvi Banaag, an airline stewardess, and Frank Lord who had kept the aircraft serviceable. All went well until we reached Teheran, still under control of the Shah.

We always loved stopping at Teheran when we were ferrying aircraft as it was a friendly place and we stayed up the hill in the Hilton, overlooking the town. However we hadn't planned at refuelling at Tabriz on our way home.

On June 6th 1967 the Arab-Israeli War broke out as we landed in Teheran. We had intended to refuel in Baghdad but that was no longer possible and we were not able to make Ankara non-stop. Hence our stop in Tabriz but the fuel was in the town and the bridge was down so it all took a lot longer tha we had planned.